Purified equine rabies immune globulin: a safe and affordable alterntaive to human rabies immune globulin
Bulletin of the World Health Organization (WHO)
; 67(6): 731-6, 1989. Tab
Article
in English
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| ID: pah-7372
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ABSTRACT
Reported are the results of a retrospective study of 3,156 patients who were treated at the Queen Saovabha Memorial Institute, Bangkok, with equine rabies immune globulin (ERIG). Only 51 patients (1.6 percent) exhibited serum-sickness-like reactions, none of which persisted for more than a week, and only 8 of these patients (15 percent) were treated with a short course of steroids. One patient, whose skin test was negative, had an immediate anaphylactic reaction to ERIG that responded to parenteral therapy with epinephrine and hydrocortisone sodium succinate
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Collection:
Databases of international organizations
Health context:
Neglected Diseases
Health problem:
Neglected Diseases
/
Zoonoses
Database:
PAHO
Main subject:
Rabies
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Rabies virus
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Serum Sickness
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Rabies Vaccines
Language:
English
Journal:
Bulletin of the World Health Organization (WHO)
Year:
1989
Document type:
Article